2013/12/10 by Juan Helo, Martin Hirsch, Sergey Kovalenko · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph #hep-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.89.073005
published as Phys. Rev. D 89, 073005 (2014) · 7 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2013/12/10 · arxiv updated 2014/04/23
Sterile neutrinos with masses in the range (1-100) GeV, have been searched for in a variety of experiments. Here, we discuss the prospects to search for sterile neutrinos at the LHC using displaced vertices. Two different cases are discussed: (i) the standard model extended with sterile neutrinos and (ii) right-handed neutrinos in a left-right symmetric extension of the standard model. A dedicated displaced vertex search will allow to probe parts of the parameter space not accessible to other searches, but will require large luminosity in both cases.